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She also was a stepmother to Claudia Antonia, Claudius ' daughter and only child from his second marriage to Aelia Paetina, and to the young Claudia Octavia and Britannicus, Claudius ' children with Valeria Messalina.
The Ancient Near Eastern collection also had its beginnings in 1825 with the purchase of Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities from the widow of Claudius James Rich.
* Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, also wrote Count Belisarius, a historical novel about Belisarius.
They also requested that Claudius be allowed to debate in the Senate.
However, as this was also the period during which the power and terror of the commander of the Praetorian Guard, Sejanus, was at its peak, Claudius chose to downplay this possibility.
Claudius also made a law requiring plaintiffs to remain in the city while their cases were pending, as defendants had previously been required to do.
Claudius also settled disputes in the provinces.
The freedmen could also officially speak for the Emperor, as when Narcissus addressed the troops in Claudius ' stead before the conquest of Britain.
Claudius also presided over many new and original events.
Annual games were also held in honor of his accession, and took place at the Praetorian camp where Claudius had first been proclaimed Emperor.
Claudius also presented naval battles to mark the attempted draining of the Fucine Lake, as well as many other public games and shows.
Claudius also restored and adorned many of the venues around Rome.
They also paint him as bloodthirsty and cruel, overly fond of both gladiatorial combat and executions, and very quick to anger ( though Claudius himself acknowledged the latter trait, and apologized publicly for his temper ).
There is also a reference to Claudius ' suppression of one of the coups against him in the movie Gladiator, though the incident is entirely fictional.
The last person known to have been able to read Etruscan was the Roman emperor Claudius ( 10 BC – AD 54 ), the author of a treatise in twenty volumes on the Etruscans, Tyrrenikà ( now lost ), who compiled a dictionary ( also lost ) by interviewing the last few elderly rustics who still spoke the language.
It was also the haunt of notable people such as Claudius Charax the historian, Aelius Aristides the orator, Polemo the sophist, and Cuspius Rufinus the Consul.
While at Athens, he developed a close friendship with his fellow student Basil of Caesarea and also made the acquaintance of Flavius Claudius Julianus, who would later become the emperor known as Julian the Apostate.
He was also honored by the Romans, particularly the emperors Claudius and Tiberius whom had inscriptions that praised Imhotep on the walls of many of their Egyptian temples.
The Julio-Claudian dynasty normally refers to the first five Roman Emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula ( also known as Gaius ), Claudius, and Nero, or the family to which they belonged ; they ruled the Roman Empire from its formation, in the second half of the 1st century ( 44 / 31 / 27 ) BC, until AD 68, when the last of the line, Nero, committed suicide.
Claudius was a Claudian through his father, Nero Claudius Drusus, and also possessed a blood connection to the Julian branch of the Imperial Family through his mother, Antonia Minor.
Claudius also suffered tragic setbacks in his personal life.
Claudius ' reign also included several attempts on his life.

Claudius and tried
Claudius personally judged many of the legal cases tried during his reign.
Appius Claudius died in 273, but in extending the road a number of times, no one has tried to displace his name upon it.
Claudius took a liking to this prisoner – until Valentinus tried to convert the Emperor – whereupon this priest was condemned to death.
Claudius took a liking to him until Valentinus tried to lead Claudius to Jesus, whereupon Claudius refused and condemned Valentinus to death.
Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead.
Claudius tried to send ambassadors to both the Carthaginians and the Syracusans, but he was ignored.
Claudius tried to have his own supporters intercept the messengers sent to summon Verginius, but they arrived too late to delay Verginius ' arrival.
Dio says that this was because the resistance became fiercer as the Britons tried to avenge Togodumnus, and Plautius needed the emperor's help to complete the conquest ; however, as Claudius was no military man and in the end spent only sixteen days in Britain, it is likely the Britons were already as good as beaten.
The decemvir Appius Claudius Crassus lusted after her and tried to use his power to take her as his own, possibly as a slave.

Claudius and revive
This is highlighted by Claudius's failed attempts to revive the Republic ; by the attempts of various characters to ' restore ' the Republic but with themselves as the true rulers ; and by Claudius noting that ' by dulling the blade of tyranny, I reconciled Rome to the monarchy ' – i. e., in his attempts to rule autocratically but along more Republican lines, he has only made the Roman people more complacent about living under a dictatorship.

Claudius and old
Accounts vary wildly with regard to this private incident and according to more modern sources, it is possible ( but exceedingly convenient ) that Claudius died of natural causes ; Claudius was 63 years old.
Since the new Emperor was not any more generous than the old, Claudius gave up hope of public office and retired to a scholarly, private life.
In modern times, some authors have cast doubt on whether Claudius was murdered or merely succumbed to illness or old age.
Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother.
Porphyry reported that Plotinus was 66 years old when he died in 270, the second year of the reign of the emperor Claudius II, thus giving us the year of his teacher's birth as around 205.
Either in 37 or 38, Messalina married her second cousin Claudius, who was about 48 years old.
They married sometime around the year 9 CE, when Claudius was 18 years old.
Agrippa was educated at the court of the emperor Claudius, and at the time of his father's death was only seventeen years old.
In 49, Claudius ' fourth wife Agrippina the Younger had Seneca recalled to Rome to tutor her son Nero, then 12 years old ; on Claudius ' death in 54, she secured recognition of Nero, rather than Claudius ' son Britannicus, as emperor.
Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Scipio Africanus and his family, and Titus Quinctius Flamininus, may be taken as instances of the new civilization ; Cato's friends, Fabius and Flaccus, were the leading men in the faction defending the old plainness.
The village ( or the town, which are indistinguishable in old records ) was the site of the hanging of the famous outlaw Claudius Smith, a British Loyalist who — along with the Mohawk Indian Chief Joseph Brant — raided the countryside surrounding Goshen during the American Revolutionary War.
He and Brandt are said to have buried their many stolen treasures in the hills surrounding Goshen, and that Claudius is himself buried somewhere on the grounds of the old Presbyterian Church – with his skull having been embedded in the wall.
* He argues that the star catalog in the Almagest, ascribed to the Hellenistic astronomer Claudius Ptolemy, was compiled in 15th to 16th centuries AD, with this objective in sight develops new methods of dating old stellar catalogues and proves that Almagest is based on the data collected between AD 600 and 1300, whereby the telluric obliquity is well taken into account.
King Claudius: Henry Wakefield, a long-suffering and cynical old Englishman with a sharp tongue and a list of prejudices five miles ( 8 km ) long, forced to room with Queen Gertrude's player.
Appius Claudius, who built the Appian Way, now an old man and blind, exhorted the Romans to refuse negotiations with Pyrrhus, who was really only asking at this point for freedom for Tarentum and her allies.
It is not until the appearance of King Hamlet's ghost that it is revealed that Claudius may have poisoned the old king in his sleep in order to usurp both his throne and his wife.

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